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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Alexi Duggins

‘Marty stop that! You can’t do it!’: Scorsese reveals he toyed with buying a gun to threaten film studio

Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro.
Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro. Photograph: Nina Westervelt/WWD/Getty Images

Oscar-winning film director Martin Scorsese threatened to buy a gun when in a rage at a film studio, according to a new docuseries about his life. After suggested edits to his 1976 movie Taxi Driver, which starred Robert De Niro, he flew into such a fury that he began threatening to take the law into his own hands.

“Marty was very upset,” says Steven Spielberg. “We get a call at the office: ‘Steve, Steve, it’s Marty. Can you come over to the house? They want me to cut all the blood spurting, they want me to cut the guy who loses his hand.’”

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